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Anyway, I am SOOOOOOOOOO glad that I didn't pay even a penny for this steaming pile of crap!

That sentiment is pretty common. Not about the new Metallica album in particular, but about the state of the entertainment industry in general.

The New York Times wrote about that [nytimes.com] this weekend. For all of the hew and cry that people are killing the music industry with p2p because no one wants to pay for "entertainment" anymore, the new Harry Potter book sells 5M copies in the US its first day on sale.

Why? Because people are still willing to buy music (and books, and movie tickets and....) if it's worth paying for!

So true. If only record labels and movie makers in particular would wake up to that fact.

I actually bought the Metallica CD, mainly because of the limited edition DVD accompanyment. Anyone even thinking the same as I, please don't bother. You are setting yourself up for extreme disappointment. The Linkin Park CD&DVD edition of Meteora on the hand is well worth the extra Â£3 i

Why? Because people are still willing to buy music (and books, and movie tickets and....) if it's worth paying for!

This is the classic justification.. usually sounds something like this -- "I download it, and if I like it then I go buy it."; let's face it, for the majority of downloaders this is a crock and not what happens. They download and keep on listening, never buying.

The other lame justification I detest is, "Well I couldn't afford it -- so I never would have bought whether I could download it o

The New York Times wrote about that [nytimes.com] this weekend. For all of the hew and cry that people are killing the music industry with p2p because no one wants to pay for "entertainment" anymore, the new Harry Potter book sells 5M copies in the US its first day on sale.

Good point. I bet you can find the new Harry Potter on-line somewhere, if you didn't want to pay for it, but so many people are buying it...

As much as I hate to support the blood-sucking Record Companies, I have to say that I've not

As much as I hate to support the blood-sucking Record Companies, I have to say that I've not been disappointed in one recent purchase. I like Annie Lenox's Bare.

Hell, I rebought _Black Celebration_ recently because I couldn't locate my long-ago legitimately purchased copy. (I spent maybe half an hour trying to figure out if the whole album was downloadable, but I also remembered that my liner notes and case had been destroyed. I actually felt like buying it again.)

Damn good album. Any album that has 'Fly On The Windscreen', 'Stripped' and 'New Dress' *has* to be good in my book. Not quite the best album DM ever did as I think Violator is *slightly* better but Black Celebration is an extremely good album nonetheless:-)

I was actually looking at _Violator_ just before I decided to pick up _Celebration_ again. The decision hinged on something an old friend of mine told me years ago, that DM's style had varied significantly at times.

Or, I'm on crack, and that's not what they told me. Any comparisons in terms of style/speed/etc. that would be pertinent in me deciding whether or not to buy _Violator_?

Violator is hardly a "Poor" album, but it is the most commercial of all their albums. It is not entirely that they changed their style to pander to a wider audience, at least some of the popularity can be attributed to the audience coming in-line for a brief period.

"Black Celebration" is an album I feel is better, "Construction Time Again" is very good as well. ( all opinions my own ).

A good purchase I have enjoyed was "Singles 81-85" for their original stuff.

The 'Singles 81-85' album was actually the first DM album I bought. "Shake The Disease" and "It's Called A Heart" had recently been on the charts (in the UK anyway) so I bought the album because I liked those two songs. From there I realized that I liked *all* the songs the album and then proceeded to buy everything DM ever did. Blimey, can't believe that was 18 years ago - where does the time go?

Of course there were so many other ways to figure out the album was horrid.

1) read the reviews2) ask others who have purchased it

Want the info first hand?

1) listen to the songs on the radio -- there are at least two singles out, and guess what... they stink.

2) Most large music chains allow you to listen to almost their entire catalog these days. Go there dial-up the album -- spend 10 minutes, realize... it stinks. Okay, you are Robin Hood and don't want to give money to the big evil companies. Go the